Calcine car



A. G. MCGREGOR Apr.' l0y 1923.

I- CALGINE CAR Apr. 10,1923, 1 www@ A. G. MCGREGOR CALGINE CAR Filed Sept;A 1'7, 1921 2 sheets-sheet 2 Patented rger. lid, i923.

lplhtltl@ CALCNE OAR.

Application filed September 17. 1921.

e it known that I, ALEXANDER G. Mo- Giinooii, a citizen of the United States, ree siding' at lvllairen., in the county of Cochise and State of iirizona, have invented or discovered certain new and useful improveinents in Calcine Cars, oi which the following is ii specication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

in extracting copper troni its ore, the ores or concentrates are orten roasted in roaster furnaces, and the calcine, which is the product of the roaster Yfurnaces is sinelted in reveriieratory furnaces. ilsiially these roc-.ster furnaces are sonic distance troni the reverheratory furnaces, and the calcine is delivered troni the roaster furnaces to the.

ieif'erhei'atory furnaces in what are called calcine cars. ilse the dust, which isI called ifiiie dust, and which is collected in dust chambers, Cottrell treaters and liies, is collected in the calcine cars and charged into the reverloeratory furnaces.

iiccording to the usual present practice, the calcine hopper of the roaster furnace has had a slide goti at its bottoni, and a short spout or chiite through which dustis drawn and depositei in the calcine car. rThe calcine car usually has an opening somewhat larger in diameter than the chute, and there is usually several inches clearance between the chute and the top of the car. The calcine is dusty, as is also the tine dust, Vith the result that inuch or the dust is thrown out of the car opening in the form 'of a cloud, causing' loss of valuable dust and causing serious annoyance to the attendant. Also, it the attendant does not at-fh closely, the gate in the chute inay not he shut in tiine to prevent an overiiow oit dust on top of the car. lThen when the' car is moved to the furnace the wind hlows the dust oliq the car, oi` it may be jarred troni the top olf the car, and this also entails loss of valuable dust.

ln the construction shown and descrihed in niy pending :lipglication tiled June 21, 1920, Serial No. 390,466, the loss of valuable dust in iilling calcine cars is p evented hy nieans or flanged sleeves mounted at the lower ends of the discharge chiites helow the hoppers or hins containing the line -ial cine material, and which sleeves are lowered in contact with the tons oY the calcine cars wherA the latter are l filled 'l'roin the Il i Serial No. 501,383.

ii conside t connections lie-tween the said cars ne chiites and ior preventing waste of .e valuable calcine dust during the filling .r loading oiE the cars and after the cars liave heen rllled, all as will hereinafter more "iilly appear.

in the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is an elevation of a calciiie car embodying niy invention, the :ar being in loading position heneatli the discharge chiites of the calcine hoppers or `sins. Fig. 2 is a plan view oi' the calcine :ar shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a partly broken out end view of the saine. Fig. 4 is enlarged detail view showing the car iii operative lrelation with the discharge chiite the calcine hop 3er.

Referring to the drawings, L denotes a portion 01"' the i'iianieworl of the car which inay, zgenerally, he of any usual or wellltnown construction, and which is equipped, beneath the framework, with the usual trucks comprising springs 'for cushioning` the jars or vibration oi: the cars. lllountcd on the car herein shown are two recepta es oi' hoppe 13 having de iending discharge spoiits or chiites 1l which may he closed by sliding gates connected with rack hars 1G with which inesh pinioiis 17 on shafts 1S which may he operated hy hand wheels 19. Each. receptacle or hopper has at its top a iillingiv opening atits otherwise closed top, and within each oiiening is an outer sleeve 2O provided with an annular flange, and, within each of said outer sleeves and telescopicallymovable therein, is an inner sleeve 21. For simplicity ci description these siinilar devices on 'die two receptacles or hoppers 13 will now generally he re-A ferred to in the singular. The outer sleeve has gointed connections with 22 carried hy a rock shaft 23 suitably mounted l TID S chiites lin given plant, and onlyV at the top 0f the hopper and provided with a handle-lever 24 by which the said rock shaft may be operated to raise and lower the said outer sleeve, or to shake it up and down.

The inner sleeve 21 is connected by links 25 with arms 26 0n rock shafts 27 mounted at the top of a receptacle 13, said rock shafts having other arms 28 connected by links 29 with two arms 30 of a three-armed lever, the third arm 31 of said lever having a long extension 32. An operating handle-lever 33 is pivotally connected near its outer end to the extension 32, said operating handle-lever having 0n its inner face a lug or tooth 33a for engagement with the teeth of a toothed bar or quadrant 34 so that said handle-lever may be maintained in any desired position of adjustment. The extension 32 of the arm 31 is yieldingly mounted with reference t0 the handle-lever 33 by virtue of a coil spring 35 on the bar or rod 36 attached to said handle-lever 33. rl`he rod 36 is embraced by the slotted or forked lower end of the extension 32 and preferably abuts against a collar 37 slidingly mounted on said rod and which collar is yieldingly held against the said lower end of said extension 32 by said coil spring. The inner sleeve 21 may be lifted into contact with the lower end of a flanged discharge chute 38 of a storage bin or hopper 39 by opera-ting the handle-lever 33, which handle-lever will be held in any desired position 0f adjustment by the toothed bar or quadrant 34; but as the car becomes filled,

in loading, the said inner sleeve will still be held in close contact with said discharge chute, as the car settles on its springs, by virtue of the yielding connection just described and afforded by the coil spring 35.

To avoid waste or overflow of the material in filling a car receptacle the outer sleeve, when in its normal or lowered position, extends some little distance downward into the chamber of the car receptacle 13, so that when the said receptacle is filled and the material extends up into the discharge chute 38 the angle of repose of the top of the material, when the car is properly filled or loaded, will be denoted by the dotted line a. The calcine gate 40 in the chute 38 will now be closed, and then by shaking the outer sleeve by operating the handle-lever 24 back and forth, the material below the closed calcine gate may be caused to settle down into the car with an angle of repose about like that indicated by dotted line Z). 1t will thus be understood that all of the material lodged in the lower end of the chute 38 and in the sleeve 21 may .he caused to settle down below the top of the car receptacle 13, and there will be no material which will spill out on the top of said receptacle, to be blown about and thus After the car hopper or receptacle has been filled the filling opening in the top of the car hopper will be closed by a swinging gate or cover 41, shown in closed position at the left part of Fig. 2, and in open position at the right part of said ligure. The cover 41 is provided with an extension 42 suitably pivoted at 43 to the top of the car receptacle 13, said extension having a side lug 44 connected by a link 45 with a crank arm 46 at the upper end of an operating shaft 47 mounted at the side of the car and provided near its lower end with an operating handle 48 by which it may be turned in opening and closing the cover 41. The cover 41, when closed, fits tightly down on the top of the filling opening of the car hopper 13, and is frictionally held in closed position, by virtue of a guide bar 41"L having inclines 41b and 41c over which the tail piece of the extension or shank 42 of the cover swings, and when being swung to open position the cover rests upon a guide bar 49 which is preferably provided with an inclined 0r cam portion 49a which, in co-operation with the incline 41c will raise said cover slightly as it is swung to open position and thus avoid a too strong frictional contact with the top of the receptacle by sagging down.

1SWhen the car hoppers or receptacles 13 are being filled from the storage bins or hoppers 39 there must necessarily be an escape of air which is replaced by the material ruiming down into the car receptacles, and this airis, of course, laden with calcine dust. To this end each hopper or receptacle 13 is provided on one side near its top with an opening, as 50, which communicates with a vent chamber 51, said opening to said chamber being normally closed by a dust vent gate 52 having a partly open top 53. Connected with the gate 52 is a vertically movable lifting rod 54 to the lower end of which is attached a. rack bar 55 which is engaged by a pinion 56 on a shaft 57 provided at one side of the car with a turnstile or handlewheel 58. By turning the said turnstile or handle wheel 58 the vent gate 52 may he raised or lowered; and when in raised position backward rotation of the shaft 57 will be prevented by a pawl 59 engaging a ratchet wheel 60 on said shaft.

The vent chamber 51 is arranged to be placed in communication with a vent pipe 61 which will in turn be in connection with a suitable dust chamber, so that theralcine dust carried by the escaping air, as the car hoppers are being filled, will be conveyed to such dust chamber and will consequently be saved. The lower end of the dust vent pipe 61 is normally closed by a bucket gate or valve r62 adapted to be raised and lowered in' a chamber afforded by a sleeve or hollow cylinder 63. The said bucket gate is lifted, by the pusher at the top of the rod 54, to permit an open passageway from the chamber last referred to to the dust vent pipe, when the vent gate 52 is lifted to open the vent openings from the hoppers or receptacles or the ears to the vent chamber 5i. The said vent gate 52 when lifted, affords a laterally closed passageway from the vent chamber 5l to the chamber of the cylinder 63, and thus to the dust vent pipe 6l. To this end the vent gate lifting rod 54 is pro'- vid'ed at its upper part with an extension 54; the enlarged upper end ot which will abut against the bottom of' the bucketI gate or valve G2 and lift the said gate or valve into the position denoted by dotted lines in Fig. l when the said vent gate is opened. A. coil spring 64, encircling the valve lifting rod 54, enables the said rod to maintain the valves or gates 52-53 and 62 in their proper positions, when lifted, notwithstanding some slight settling of the car as it is being loadedl Although the above description is mainly in the singular as describing one set of the devices as applied to one of the receptacles or hoppers 13, it will be understood that as these devices are duplicates the description of one set or" devices will apply to the two sets shown and described, and where the invention as hereinafter claimed in the singular, as applied to the devices mounted on one calcine receptacle or hopper, it will be understood that claims which cover the invention in the singular will also cover the same in the plural.

In the use of my invention, when the calcine car is to be loaded, it is located as shown in Fig. l so that the openings in the tops of the receptacles or hoppers 13 are directly beneath the chutes 38 at the bottoms of the storage bins or hoppers 89 containing the calcine. The covers al of the openings in the tops of the car receptacles or hoppers 13 are then swung to open position as indicated at the right ot Fig. 2, by operating the shafts 4K7 by their handles 4:8, said shafts being connected with said covers, as hereinbefore described. rllhe vent gate 52 is then lifted to the position denoted in dotted lines in Fig. l by vturning the trunstile or handle wheel 58, thus establishing a vent connection between the chambers of the car receptacles or hoppers and the dust vent pipe 6l. The inner sleeves 2l are then lifted to the position shown at the right in Fig. 1 by operating the handle bars 33, and engaging the same with the rack bars or quadrants 34 several notches beyond the point which they would assume when the sleeves first bear against the flanges of the calcine chutes 38, so that the said inner sleeves will be held firmly against the said chutes even after the car settles due to the increased load on the car springs. rilhe calcine gates Ll() in the chutes 38 are then opened and the car receptacles allowed to fill, but owing to the outer sleeves 20, which extend down into the tops of the chambers of the car receptacles or hoppers, the said receptacles oil hoppers will not be entirely filled, the angle oit' repose of the material, when the fiow of the same ceases, being indicated by the dotted line e. The calcine gates Li0 in the chutes 3S are then closed, and after this has been donc the said inner sleeves will be shaken up and down by operating the handle levers 2d, thus permitting the material which may be in the chutes 88 below the closed calc-ine gates Li() and within the inner sleeves 2l, to flow down below the tops of the car receptacles or hoppers, the material at this time assuming an angle ot repose as above indicated by the dotted line o. his avoidance of the over filling of the car receptacles, prevented by the outer sleeves 20, obviates the necessity closely watching the lling or loading operation and avoids spilling the valuable calcine dust on the tops of the receptacles, to be blown away and wasted.

The outer sleeves are then allowed to drop down so that their peripheral flanges rest on the tops of the car receptacles or hoppers and the inner sleeves are then lowered so that they rest on the outer sleeves, as denoted at the left part of F ig. l. rlhe pawl 59 is then released from the ratchet wheel G0 and the turnstile or handle wheel is operated to lower the vent gate 52 to the position denoted in full lines in l, thus lowering the bucket gate 62, and closing the lower end of the dust vent pipe 6l. The covers l1 will then be swung back over the filling openings in the tops of' the car receptacles or hoppers by reversely operating the handles 4S on the shafts 47 connected with saidv covers, the latter being now held down tightly ov .r the said opening by the means hereinbefore described- This closing ofthe receptacles 13 by the covers al is desirable for the reason that small clouds of calcine dust will otherwise continue to rise through the filling openings afterthe filling or charging operation has stopped.

Having thus described my invention claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. A calcine car provided with a receptacle having a closed top with a filling` opening therein, and vertically extensible means mounted on said receptacle for forming a laterally closed conduit between said filling opening and a chute at the bottom of a storage bin.

2. A calcine car provided with a receptacle having a closed top with a filling opening therein, and yielding, vertically extensible means mounted on said receptacle for forming a laterally closed conduit between said filling opening and a chute at the bottom of a storage bin.

3. A calcine car provided with a receptacle having a closed top with a filling opening therein, and vertically extensible means mounted on said receptacle for forming a laterally closed conduit between said filling opening and a chute at the bottom of a storage bin, said extensible means comprising a vertically movable sleeve normally resting on the top of said receptacle.

4L. A calcine car provided with a receptacle having a closed top with a filling opening therein, and yielding, vertically extensible means mounted on said receptacle for forming a laterally closed conduit between said filling opening and a chute at the bottom of a storage bin, said extensible means comprising a vertically movable sleeve normally resting on the top of said receptacle.

5. A calcine car having a. receptacle with a closed top provided with a filling opening, a sleeve within said opening, a lever and suitable connections to said sleeve whereby said sleeve may be lifted into contact with a chute at the bottom of a storage bin, to form a laterally closed conduit, when said receptacle is to be filled, and means .for holding said lever in any desired position of adjustment.

6. A calcine car having` a receptacle with a closed top provided with a filling opening, a sleeve within said opening, a lever and suitable connections to said sleeve whereby said sleeve may be lifted into con-- tact with a chute at the bottoni of a storage bin, to form a laterally closed conduit, when said receptacle is to be filled, and means for holding said lever in any desired position of adjustment, said connections between said lever and said sleeve comprising a spring-pressed member so that said sleeve will be held up against said chute when the car settles as the load on the car increases.

7. A calcine car having a receptacle with a closed top provided with a lling opening, a sleeve within said opening, a level` and suitable connections to said sleeve whereby said sleeve may be lifted into contact with a chute at the bottom of a storage bin, to form a laterally closed conduit, when said receptacle is to be filled, means for holding said lever in any desired position of adjustment, an outer sleeve surrounding said first-named sleeve within said opening, said vouter sleeve normally extending down into the top of the chamber of said receptacle, and means for lifting and shaking said outer sleeve when desired.

8. ri, calcine car having a receptacle with a closed top provided with a filling opening, a sleeve within said opening, a lever and suitable connections to said sleeve whereby said sleeve may be lifted into contact with a chute at the bottom of a storage bin, to form a laterally closed conduit, when said receptacle is to be filled, means for holding said lever in any desired position of adjustment, said connections between said lever and said sleeve comprising a spring-pressed member so that said sleeve will be held up against said chiite when the car settles as the load on the car increases, an outer sleeve surrounding said first-named sleeve within said opening, said outer sleeve normally extending down into the top of the chamber of said receptacle, and means for lifting and shaking said outer sleeve when desired.

9. A calc-ine car receptacle provided at or near its top with an air and dust vent opening to vent chamber, a vent gate mounted on said car, for normally closing said opening and adapted, when lifted, to form a tubular connection with a vent dust pipe, and means on said car for lifting said gate to opened position.

10. A calcine car receptacle provided at or near its top with an air and dust vent opening to a vent chamber, a vent gate mounted on said ear, for normally closing said opening and adapted, when lifted, to form a tubular connection with a vent dust pipe, means on said car for lifting said gate to opened position, a rod for lifting said gate, a rack and pinion for operating said rod, means for operating said rack and pinion, and means for holding said gate in lifted position.

ll. A. calcine car receptacle provided at or near its top with an air and dust vent opening to a vent chamber, a vent gate mounted on said car, for normally closing said opening and adapted, when lifted, to form a tubular connection with a vent dust pipe, means on said car for lifting said gate to opened. position, a rod for lifting said gate, a rack and pinion for operating said rod, means for operating said rack and pinion, means for holding said gate in lifted position, a shaft by which said pinion is carried, a ratchet-wheel on said shaft, and a detent pawl for engaging said ratchet wheel to hold it against backward movement.

12. A calcine car receptacle provided at or near its top with an air and dust vent opening to a vent chamber, a vent gate mounted on said car, for normally closing said opening and ,adapted, when lifted, to form a tubular connection with a vent dust pipe, means on said car for lifting said gate to opened position. a rod for lifting said gate, a rack and pinion for operating said rod, means for operating said rack and pinion, means for holding said gate in lifted position, and yielding means, movable with said gate, for opening a gate which normally closes the lower endof said vent dust pipe.

13. A calcine car receptacle* having a closed top provided with a charging opening, a hozenmlly swinging cove;n for closing said opening, said cover having an eX- tenson by which it is plvoed to the top oV said receptacle, and an inclined gLlde-bm on said receptacle over which J511e tail piece of said extension may swing and by virtue of which guide-bal' and tail piece Said @over is held tightly down over said opening, when Closed.

il. .l cale-:lne ear receptacle hay/'ing a clnsed top p1 vided with a llng or charging cpenng, a. hozontally swinging poed @over for closing said opening, and means for operat.' said Qovel to open and close Said opening, said ogemtng means Comprising a yertCa-lsllaft having' a handle a@ iti; lower part, a crank at the upper end of said shaft and a link connecting Said crank with said pvoted Cover.

l5. A @alleine car receptacle having a closed top povded with a charging; open* ingn horizontally swinging cover fol* closing said opening, said @over having an eX- enson plfo'ed to the top of said receptacle, Said extension lla- Ting a sail piece, means for oper-an(r Said Covelo open and close Said opening,I and an inclined guide 4bar arranged to be engaged by said tail piece, 'for lifting Said @over Slightly as it is swung to open position.

In testimony whereof l ax my signature.

ALEXANDER GRANT IcGREGUR. 

